A team has finished a game with 1-8-8 runs-hits-errors line 3 times since 1897, most recently Detroit Tigers on 5 September 1902. That is about one every 147,668 team-games.
Box score for the most recent one ↗
1-8-5 1-8-7 1-8-4 1-8-1 1-8-6 1-8-0 1-8-8 1-9-1 1-9-2 1-9-3 1-9-5 1-9-0 1-9-4
The whole distribution — Runs-Hits-Errors Lines · All 18 shapes